headline stories washington beijing hold their first talks since the world's largest economies called the ninety day truce. war also ahead on the program. the scene of yet more violence as women hold their own demonstration that ends in another weekend of clashes with the authorities. to join us russian space station. stateside visits by the head space agency has blocked the requests.

ten pm and six in the evening right here in moscow this monday january seventh welcome to r.t. international i mean and. as american and chinese officials meet in beijing with a view to putting an end to their country's bitter trade war the u.s. has ruffled china by selling out destroy the speeded islands in the south china sea the islands are claim not only by china but also by vietnam and taiwan which of course is a longstanding u.s. ally a spokesperson for the u.s. pacific fleet say they move wasn't intended to be a political statement but china reacted with fury calling it a provocation and claiming the action was in violation of international law last

month the world's two largest economies agreed to a ninety day truce in their trade war which so far has seemingly created more losers than winners that's the theory of truth or exceptions. well the next round of the us china trade battle begins and both sides appear to be quite enthusiastic just had a long and very good call would presume she of china deal is moving along very well if made it will be very comprehensive covering all subjects areas and points of dispute big progress being made us trade negotiators will optimistically and constructively communicate with the chinese delegation on the important agreements achieved by the two leaders during the meeting in argentina this is the first formal meeting since presidents donald trump and the xi jinping agreed a ninety day truce last month when washington hit the pause button on the shuttle to increase in tariffs and beijing vowed to buy more products from the u.s. and there's no doubt that for both countries this ongoing trade war has stirred up

the financial markets and dampened their economic outlook we saw a number of companies who have suffered financial losses and they are finger pointing towards the top political dogs for being responsible for a decline in their profits apple didn't hold back in airing its views or shortfall is over one hundred percent of our thought that it's primarily china and what i believe to be the case is the trade between the united states and china put additional pressure on their economy they're going to be fine apple is a great company but that's not my look i have to worry about our country first using the daughter of a chinese telecoms giant as a battering tool might not be the best tactic to persuade your opposition to work with you either the hallway saw their court huge diplomatic ways when the company's c.f.o. miss wang once you was arrested in canada trumped even pledged to intervene when he

thought it would help to secure a trade deal to benefit america beijing was furious we have made solemn representations to canada and the us demanding that both border. immediately clarify the reasons for their detention and immediately released a detainee to protect the person's legal rights pretty much the whole of twenty eighteen passed by with china and the us at each other's throats with tit for tat sanctions and now with the american and chinese trading giants have all their fingers and toes crossed so that it can be business as usual sooner rather than later but who knows it's a very important meeting it's a very significant meeting but keep in mind that the deadline that was set at the key to winning the meeting in buenos aires argentina between the us side of the chinese side was more first in terms of coming to some sort of agreement or some sort of resolution i dare say that the early days of january two thousand and nineteen there is not sufficient pressure to cause either side to be reasonable i

don't think we'll be going to see reasonable approaches the merger until we get closer to the date that it's march first two thousand and nineteen that's where we are now and no one really has an idea of where this is all going to but one thing is for sure we're not going to be bored watching this next round of china us trading. so plenty of talking points let's get through some of them now with the boat showing lou by chang is director of the center for international business ethics in beijing welcome to the program do you think is there any prospect of a breakthrough in beijing on a resolution to the trade war that is satisfactory for both sides. well i think. after the meeting the two presidents in argentina there has been quite much of a silver lining in their trade because that there. was last into law and there were

also the possibility. but. finally the snow need. to be brought on both sides. kind really have the time to work out some amiable solution for. a short term reshoots and all of us when there are long range issues we cannot of course solve the problem to the satisfaction of either side if ever we can really make substantial progress for example in terms of the narrowing the trade balance china import more because china's development really need a lot of goods from the united states be a good solid beings being the nick if i grass. on the other hand they you know in terms of market access china has been doing in any way by regularly enlarging many more sacked orders for foreign but it's

a patient of course inclusive. that of the united states. financial market is. substantially and also china produced you for you must move all that up can also be very much in favor actually very much in line with the demand from the united states just speaking of access the latest development is the sailing of the u.s. ship through disputed waters is not likely to affect the talks at all. i don't think so because if you look at the us system the really don't know on a house in the very much castro castro rated the sort of concert so i think it's the pentagon's unilateral maneuverability of the thought that the u.s. dominance in the maritime sea. really was the so many of their former

allies will not be challenged as china is growing in its might in both the military forest and they were particularly in and they will force in the china sea although you know this there are some compassion as we believe that or china can really work out its seized asian neighbors without the intervention and the pretext of freedom of navigation is really being far very much a stretched to the u.s. interpretation so let me just say what they would say by watching they would say china doesn't really have a right to be angry in this situation because it's the case as you say that freedom of navigation it's their rights under pressure international law the protection of that for them to travel in those seas. well. maybe they should one

thing but the territorial. claim is it different issue so china first the freedom they've bought the china sovereignty in the south china sea in those historically sent to new areas do not really list and to be challenged. but. that doesn't really correlate was the go in the goetia ocean and begun because those guys are there preoccupied it was resolving the trading bassman american accesses you so all i do not think is that really a concerted efforts what's the big picture like here in terms of these trade talks what do you think the i feel it would be for the global economy if the us china trade war continues. well after. all most in the ear of contention actually of both size begin to be more

rational and the realize that nobody is really claiming a winner. actually consumers a business community. begin to suffer and that is reflected. very dramatically in the stock exchange and also in the commodity prices so therefore it is time for both sides really to say down to work out a listing solution. as for structural changes china is doing at doing it but we cannot really achieve overnight and actually we do not really wanted to achieve what is really being amended on the u.s. side i thought as for market access for the protection of intellectual property rights as for importing more to balance the the trade across the two economies so that's something china is rated to bill thank you so

much for your analysis this hour by chang lew director of the center for international business ethics thank you sir. for i t your apart clashes erupted in part as between protesters and police as a women's yellow vest demonstration tick shape in the french capital over the weekend. was. was. the female only rally took place on sunday as the best marches continued for and if consecutive week several hundred making a stand they say against dropping living standards it was largely peaceful until later in the afternoon when scuffles broke out between protesters on the whole piece missing is one police union has had enough and is the mounting a file to list violent protesters here sharma didn't ski with more. well essentially this means the police could have more rights and the ability to put

haps put what they describe as violent protest is under surveillance it could also stop them the tension from being able to go to protests in the first place and that's one of the calls that's coming from the police union they've also said that they want tougher action against anybody who's found to have caused by lindt in protests we hear statements saying that we need to be tougher it's been two years since we demanded more firmness against those who assault the police since the beginning of the yellow vest movement how many of those arrested for assaulting law enforcement officers have gone to prison well that call comes after yet another weekend of violence here in paris as protests took place across france for the yellow vests movement around fifty thousand people was said to have been moved of course front and we saw violence from both sides of the crowd this wasn't just the protesters this was also from the police including some pretty shocking footage

that some moche of a decorated police commander punching several protesters throwing her third birthday not god really rooted out you know that her was. very. low. well one woman who's thirty five years old says she was also attacked by that commanding officer and she's now filed a complaint which is currently under investigation interesting really though there has not been any response about that particular incident caught on camera by france's interior minister christopher kastner who has been quick to criticize violence from the protesters including one protester who is apparently a former champion boxer who was caught in a bout of fisticuffs with officers on a bridge in paris on saturday was

was. well the interior minister took to social media to describe that attack by this alleged former boxer as being a coward at least attack now he's also come on the door attacked for something else that's happened this is something published on social media that appeared to be an official decree from the ministry of the interior suggesting that the police would have the right to round up any legal arms that were owned by the protesters so this is things that just perhaps hunting guns if you have a license knives or even battens now he's been quick to point out that that indeed is not true and he called it fake news fake news another original idea from those who dream of insurrection and who don't hesitate to spread false documents information is the best remedy for folk news to use without moderation

some people may have been hoping that the yellow vest movement would have died down and sort of pretty much left two thousand and nineteen alone it doesn't seem to be that way and already act nine is planned for this forthcoming saturday. turkey on the united states are fund themselves once world odds over the. fate of the kurds in north eastern syria the u.s. has demanded that before it pulls troops out of the region on christmas currently the security of the y p g militia which turkey views as a terror group but was instrumental in defeating eisel on sunday the us national security advisor i'd line the preconditions for a military pollard now objectives that we want to accomplish that condition the withdrawal we don't think that took saw to undertake military action that's not fully coordinated with and agreed to by the united states so that they meet the president's requirement that the syrian opposition forces that have fought with us

and not endangered john bolton made that statement during a visit to jerusalem where he met with israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu to discuss the changing dynamics of the syrian conflict he was attempting to allay is really concerns about or really an influence in syria which has been growing since donald trump initially announced then on conditional troop withdrawal. so our boys our young women are men they're all coming back and they're coming back now there will be a strong deliberate and the orderly withdrawal of u.s. forces from syria very deliberate very orderly. the middle east analyst told us he believes the u.s. is attempting to destabilize north eastern syria by forcing turkey into a standoff with other regional players so we think the united states is using troop withdrawal in order to create a vacuum in northeastern syria and try to push turkey to assume

a bigger role than is agreed with russia and iran and that supposedly he would bring it into conflict with the interests of syria and russia and iran and basically try to destabilize that alliance the outcome of the negotiations are a clear. russian or turkey is going to be in the face of american demands we don't know america has a lot of power and they could give turkey and ultimatum it's either us or the russians. you know the trump administration one would think that this is a remote possibility because they are like that the very direct president trump and his administration. they might put turkey under the threat political pressure is putting a major u.s. russian space program in jeopardy that story and more right after this.

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round lifts only the one percent. we can all middle of the room. in the real news room. are back with our t. international just days after a visit by the u.s. secretary of state brazil it's newly elected president announced he's not ruling on down in american military base being a stop in his country. would that include the possibility of having an american base in brazil and of course the physical the physical issue of it would be symbolic nowadays the american shoney's and russian military powers can reach any part of the world independently of their bases but still pending on what might

happen in the world who knows if we have to talk about a us base in the future. president. was sworn in on new year's day and was immediately can branch elated by donald trump on twitter it didn't take long for the new personally and president to respond mentioning the benefits of cooperation between the two countries and it appears the u.s. is up for closer ties with brazil. we believe the opportunity between present president both know and our two teams creates a truly transformative opportunity for our two nations for two peoples who. live along with whatever. for them and. we want to work with we're going to. lead us department of defense to give a response to the prospect of a military base in brazil however human rights lawyer done called like things that trump. are united by

a common hostility towards the left wing governments and latin america. it's very clear that a pulse in our at the new president is in lockstep with the trump administration in wanting to militarize latin america and wanting in particular regime change in countries like venezuela nicaraguan tube it's a very concerning situation both in our and trump share in a right wing of the ology they share antipathy towards the left wing governments of latin america so clearly balls in our own we've done work very close with trump he will try to do his best to partner with the united states but i think the us has more bases throughout the world than any country should i mean they just don't need a military in terms of national security so i don't see why the u.s. should have a base they are i think it could only be viewed as an aggressive stance again towards countries it doesn't like like venezuela. plans for

a joint humus russian space station orbiting the moon are at risk now after a visit stateside by the head of the russian space agency was called off the reason pressure from politicians we had heard from numerous senators suggesting that this was not a good idea and i wanted to be accommodating to the interest of the senators so i have rescinded the invitation for dimitri rogozin to visit the u.s. however we will continue our strong working relationship with russia as a relates to the international space station and sending our astronauts into space . last invited to meet three or goes into the u.s. several months ago but that was criticized in washington he is subject to u.s. sanctions former nuts and commander leroy chiao say space missions are heavily influenced by politics the spikes all the polls and the work they do. it is unfortunate that. the head of those who are goes and visit was cancelled these

things you know are of course political above the just nasa has to do with government the government may have something to do the fact that the congress the united states congress has just changed hands for the republicans to the democrats and it could be really is some kind of a response to that or influence to that everything is about politics at the end of the day right i mean even every even the reason that ken trees get into space programs and space exploration is primarily for national prestige and and soft power over seas amongst allies as well as adversaries the relationship between russia and the united states in space has been very much a positive one i hope that this this latest of problem is just a hiccup in an otherwise fairly fairly healthy relationship. well twenty eight thing was a challenging year for the russian space agency when a soyuz rocket suffered a launch failure in october was

a big story recounts events. for decades the soyuz rocket has been at work of course allowing humans to escape their cradle. fail proof for more than thirty years until this. just took that those are the wires to just the to be if they produce a great. fall there's that thing it's the. it's the first. option the. first with the digits because.

it may only on. the. two people on board one of them on his maiden flight rescue teams watch the capsule descend with nothing more than pure faith that also note nick hague and cosmonaut alexi of chanaan were ok. we're standing by for information and we continue to get it from the rest of my control team but everything seems to be fine with the crew we had become with them and they are ok. the relief unimaginable in scales and modes became real for the families of the crew.

trillions wife spoke to me a moment. after learning her husband was doing well that's not the funniest not that the. house will not be what you think it is of our church because then you cut your branches cause that spicy buspar side to be on top be doing all of this to most by seeing that they are you. know it's not easy and you really mean you've had human ear many called it a miracle but professionals called it in packable performance of the soyuz rescue system you see the capsule carrying the crew this one is basically a small rocket built into the larger one so huge during an emergency the rescue module kicks away the capsule separating it from the soyuz here's how it works. yeah. but if you're the future.

of the corrosive of the of someone who. was pushed into a vehicle. that are going. to miss all. of them are. investigators checked every entity and person who as much as laid a finger on the soyuz and eventually bend the blame on the rocket assembly defect

footage of the reason behind the failure was open. aeration the accident occurred due to a fall out in a sense this could only happen at the assembly stage at the baikonur cosmodrome but while the probe was under way it was clear with only three crew out of the required six stations on the i assess it had to be manned and fast the i assess has entered twenty one thirty in with a full house the new crew successfully launched in december even a bit earlier than she had told in two months after the incident the new crew was unfazed. they went inside out students say is a bit small. there is any time you wish with me that. the party designed. in a way with us in that event to me was actually richer in. the smart design because

so using your little work that is with us we all here on the ground and you are ready to do is read everything. it was a nick or alexei but they are set for around two in just a couple of months and with this still being a maiden flight for nick hague they are both as excited as ever. and eventful time well you can always find the latest updates this monday on our twitter be back in thirty here live from our moscow.

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